Adjustable dress-shield supporter.



A. H. ROSS & B. B. GIBBS. ADJUSTABLE DRESS SHIELD SUPPORTER.

APPLIOATIOH FILED 0GT.4, 1913.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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ADJUSTABLE DRESS-SHIELD SUPPORTER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed October 4, 1913. Serial No. 793,371.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that we, ADELLE H. Ross and BERTHA B. GIBBs, citizens of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Dress-Shield Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

Dress shield supporters are at present generally made in two separate halves, one for each side of the body, tied together at the front, and adjustably laced together at the back. But the adjustment of the lacing at the back, so that the dress shield supporter will properly fit the wearer, generally involves considerable time and trouble, because, each time that it is fitted on and is found to require adjustment to fit properly, it cannot be adjusted without being taken off again.

The object of our invention is to provide a dress shield supporter by which such adjustment need be made once only and that very easily and quickly.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view of our improved dress shield supporter; Fig. 2 is an enlarged broken plan v view of a portion thereof.

Referring to the drawing,1 indicates dress shields, and 2 the supporter sections therefor, tied together at the front of the body by tapes 3, as is the usual construction. To the upper and lower portions of the inner or rear end of each section are secured tapes 4-, 5, the other end of the tape 5 being con- 1 nected to the tape 4 at a point distant from the end of the tape 5 about equal to its length, so that said tapes i and 5 and the rear edge of the corresponding supporter section form approximately an isosceles triangle. A. narrow strip 7 of muslin is placed against the inner surface of the rear portion of the supporter section, its inner end being interposed, as shown at 1 f. between the inner and outer members 8 of the fabric forming the shield, and continuous lines 13 of stitching are formed, the first portions of said lines connecting said strip with said supporter section, and the remaining portions connecting two members of the fabric 8, thus forming a guide-way 6. The tape 4L extends through said guideway, and its front terminal portion 9, projecting beyond the front end of said guideway and of sufiicient length to form a short loop 10, is secured, as shown at 11, to the front edge of the fabric 8, a small buckle 12 being first placed on the looped portion of the tape.

Our improved dress shield supporter is placed upon the body of the wearer in the usual manner, the tapes 4 being drawn back in the guideways, so as to reduce the size of the loops 10, and the tapes 3 at the front are then tied together. When the supporter is in position, said loops 10 will be at the front of the wearer, and can be easily grasped by the fingers. The tapes l are then drawn forward by said loops, thereby drawing together the supporter sections at the rear. When said sections have been drawn together a suiiicient distance to fit comfortably around the body of the wearer. the buckles 12 are moved along the looped portions 10 of the tapes 4-, away from the ends 11 of said tapes, until they are close to the front ends of the guideways 6, and are then secured on the tapes 4. Said front ends of the guideways are made sufificiently wide to permit the sliding movement therethrough only of the tapes 4:, the buckles not being small enough to enter the guideways, and thus said buckles prevent the tapes 4 from being drawn back into the guideways, and the supporter sections from separating from one another at the back.

It is now evident with how great ease and rapidity the dress shield supporter can at once be adjusted to the size of the wearer.

We claim 1. A dress shield supporter, consisting of two independent sections each having a guidewav, means for securing together the front ends of the sections, and tapes attached to the upper and lower portions respectively of the rear end of each section, said tapes of each section being connected together at approximately equal distances from their points of attachment to said section, and one of each pair of said tapes extending through the guideway of the other section.

2. A dress shield supporter, consisting of two independent sections, each having a guideway, a tape in each guideway, attached to the rear end of the other section and extending to the front of the supporter, and a device adjustably attached to the front portion of each tape and of a size too great to enter said guideway.

3. A dress shield supporter consisting of two independent sections, and each having a guideway, a tape in each gui deway,' one' end of which is attached to said section at the front, and the other end is attached to the other section at the rear, a second tape at-' tached to the first-named tape and also to said latter section, anda device adjnstably secured on the portion of each first-named tape between the front end of said guideway and the front end of the tape-, and wider 10 than the front end of the guideway, whereby said device-limits the rearward movement of the tape in said guideway.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto .set ourhandsin the presencetof two sub- Copies of this Intent may-be-obtainedfforfive' cents: each', by addressing thei Commissioneroflatnts.

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